Jordan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably King v. State (2000), Smith v. State (2009)
67 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Reyes v. State · McIntire v. State · Trevino v. State · Green v. State · Owens v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think there can be no sort of doubt but that these authorities establish, beyond question, that, in order for appellant to have had considered his ground of motion attacking the verdict of the jury on any matter extrinsic the record itself, as a matter of pleading, he must support it by his own affidavit or the affidavit of some one else specifically • showing the truth of the grounds of attack. And when it is not so sworn to or supported, it presents no question requiring the lower court to consider or investigate it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pilkinton“not sufficient to put the trial judge on notice that reasonable grounds existf ] to believe counsel’s representation may have been ineffective”). . Wallace, 106 S.W.3d at 106 . See also Gonzalez, 855 S.W.2d at 696 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State“When an accused presents a motion for new trial raising matters not determinable from the record, which could entitle him to relief, the trial judge abuses his discretion in failing to hold a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martinez v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.